Philip Sidney Quotes About Greatness

Quotes about: Greatness

• For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

  Philip Sidney

  Greatness, Quality, Goodness

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.18

• Great is not great to the greater.

  Philip Sidney

  Greatness, Greater

  Philip Sidney (1873). “The Complete Poems of Sir Philip Sidney ...”, p.21

• Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

  Philip Sidney

  Greatness, Air, Should

• Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.

  Philip Sidney

  Greatness, Despair, Able

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.151

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